Originally Posted By DDMAN26 I do know Dark Horse publishing had the comic rights to Star Wars and I think their agreement just ended and will revert to Disney. Which is ironic because Marvel used to publish Star Wars
Originally Posted By leemac ^^ Dark Horse expect to retain the rights. It seems Disney doesn't want to play in that sandbox.
Originally Posted By dagobert >>>^^ Dark Horse expect to retain the rights. It seems Disney doesn't want to play in that sandbox.<<< If Disney doesn't want to play in that sandbox, it would make sense to sell Marvel and just keep the movie rights. Disney doesn't produce Disney comics in the US. So why should they keep Marvel Comics? I'm not very interested in comic books, except for Asterix, Lucky Luke and Carl Barks' Disney Comics, but I guess the SW Fans will be glad to hear that Dark Horse keeps the rights. By the way, is Marvel Comics doing well? How are comic sales in the US?
Originally Posted By dagobert >>>The unit officially reports through Marvel Studios but DPW has licensed the product for books etc. DPW was close to be entirely shuttered a few years back - it has survived but DCP would rather not be in the publishing world.<< I guess DPW stands for Disney Publishing Worldwide or something like that and DCP is Disney Consumer Products? Why are these two companies at all involved with Marvel. I mean why does DPW license a Marvel product? I thought Marvel was left intact with all their business units?
Originally Posted By dagobert By the way over here in Germany/Austria IM3 is neither distributed by Disney nor by Paramount. A German company named Concorde Filmverleih seems to have the distribution rights for IM.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox <<I wouldn't bet on that - SFX houses have been failing left, right and center - you have a high cost base and ever-decreasing revenue. It is a bad business to be. I'd wager the only reason it is still at the Studio is that no-one wants to buy it for value.>> Talk quietly to Pixarians about the bankruptcies of small animation and f/x houses. It's a very, VERY bad time to be an animator or Cintiq jockey. Everyone running scared. No one has job security. I agree with Lee about ILM. What company would buy it? It would be far cheaper to start your own group from scratch, hiring laid off artists from the various bankrupt studios.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <I'm not sure movie-goers will stomach 5-6 big budget comic book movies annually.> I guess I'm weird, but they almost never interest me at all any more (and only sorta did ever.) Give me real human characters with real human stories and emotions any day.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>I guess I'm weird, but they almost never interest me at all any more (and only sorta did ever.)<< I guess I'm even weirder. Absolute zero interest whatsoever, ever since I was an embryo.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Agreed I'm telling you all. The bottom is going to drop out the superhero movies soon. Along with 3-D.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Well if it is going fall out it's not going to be this weekend. It 15.6 million in previews which is lower than Avengers but should make about 65-70 million today and about 160 for the weekend. I guess I don't care what type of movie it is as long as I get a good story that accompanies it. I finally saw Silver Linings Playbook and Django Unchained, thought both were great. Then take prententious crap like the Master, hated every minute of that film. The Avengers, Iron Man, the first two Spider-Man films and the recent Batman films are fantastic because the stories were first rate. But then you have Spider-Man 3, X-Men 3, the Fantastic Four films whose stories didn't click. A Spider-
Originally Posted By dshyates I honestly believe that a lot of the appeal of IM and the Avengers for the general public is RDJ's Tony Stark. But I am definitely losing interest in Comic Book movies.
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 Comic Book movies will be fine and can be successfully for decades IF and only if the movie studios realize that throwing 300 million at a movie isn't necessarily going to make it better. You can make just as good of a movie at a 1/3 or even half of that price. The failure of comic book movies will only happen if studios refuse to practice fiscal restraint and continue to only make these high budget super hero movies...
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>The failure of comic book movies will only happen if studios refuse to practice fiscal restraint and continue to only make these high budget super hero movies...<< <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUcktiQxC9Q" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...ktiQxC9Q</a>
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Kar2oonMan -- that is hilarious! Looks like a SNL spoof! Trivia: Nicholas Hammond was one of the VonTrapp kids in movie 'The Sound of Music' Like other popular genres - Westerns, Disasters, 1930s Gangsters, Pirate / Swashbuckler, heck, even Musicals -- Superheroes will also pass in popularity. For this 50-year old, who felt burned on those last three 'Star Wars' movies, and the last 'Indiana Jones' sequel, and more recently, 'John Carter' -- I find the look, feel, and content of these movies to be so derivative of all the rest, that I just don't care. Great story? Do I really care if Tony Stark and Gwyneth Paltrow get together or not? And sorry, but if the 'Dark Knight' series is the pinnacle of what people say is a great superhero movie -- I'm out. I suffered through the first one and am just not interested. Hey Kar2oonMan, wanna go watch 'Jaws' for the 59th time?
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance Heading out to see Iron Man 3 now. At least MY family still appreciates a good comic book movie! We're nerdy like dat.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance Heading out to see Iron Man 3 now. At least MY family still appreciates a good comic book movie! We're nerdy like dat.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Hey Kar2oonMan, wanna go watch 'Jaws' for the 59th time?<< Heck yeah! That's why we're such good friends, Jim. You know, 'Amity' means friendship...
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 There are a lot who assume that the comic book genre will go the way of the western, I disagree, as comic book movies have been around for the past 30 years, granted not in the number of movies nowadays, but the genre has never really died out, even after the disasters of Superman IV, Superman Returns, Batman and Robin, Ghost Rider 2, Green Lantern, and Fantastic 4. If the genre could survive those crapfests, it can survive most anything.
